Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000:
> Hmm, to the extent that MH format is like Maildir, my experience
> is contrary to your claim that saving changes is faster in a
> one-message-per-file format. I found that closing mutt took
> several times longer with MH than with mbox. My suspicioun was
> that mutt updates the access times for every message file so it
> can detect new messages, and this updating is slow (at least on
> Solaris).
If this is true, then this wouldn't be slow-down with Maildir. The
"newness" of a file is determined by it's location, if it's in the
"new" subdir inside the Maildir, it's new. If it's in "cur", it's
been read. Other message flags may be stored in the filename, so
status changes wouldn't theoretically need to even rewrite the file,
just renaming it. I do think Mutt does update the X-Status header
though when you flag a message or something...
Anyway, the performance hit you get with deleting messages might also
be because of the .mh_sequences file? I don't know in detail how that
works though, I just know it's there.
Mikko
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